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William D. Cohan on Power, Ego, and the Imperial CEO

The Daily Stoic

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Jack Welch - The King of Nothing

The ability to make decisions for which other people's asses are put on the line is not a trait that I think you naturally have or most people have. Well, and certainly Jack Welch was not born. Anything like that. And then everything about them kind of has this surreal, as you said, like a refined quality. You can't tell if it's like the Fitzgerald thing where the very rich are different than you and I. Or if there's some part of their mentality, one internalizes or one is born with it That allows them to make these sort of billion or trillion dollar decisions that affect millions of people.

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